Chapter Five Hundred and Fiftieth Chapter Aviteri I of Breot Kingdom
Chapter 557: Avitri I of the Kingdom of Breault
On February 28, 604, in the Holy Light Calendar, Claude took the ironclad cruiser St. Hugh Linde and arrived at the harbor of the Beibu Gulf in the Karnas Prairie. Generals Skree and Albert were already at the
We have been waiting here for a long time, and the three of them hugged and exchanged greetings for a while.
On February 29th, a military meeting was held at the military district headquarters in Canpaste City, the capital of the Beibu Gulf. Claude announced the reorganization and reorganization of the Thunder Legion. The nearly 150,000-strong Thunder Legion would follow the new military system.
The corps establishment of the four divisions was reduced to 90,000 troops. After the veterans who had completed their military service retired, the remaining 50,000 troops were combined with the eight local garrison regiments stationed in the Eskiline and Rimodra regions to form
Storm Legion.
The Storm Legion is the third regular legion approved by the Overseas Dominion Council to be brought under the jurisdiction of the military region. It is mainly used to garrison the hereditary family territory in the coastal area of the North Gulf of Karnar Prairie. It is also a light cavalry legion, and its target is Karnar.
Various nomadic tribes on the Sri Lankan prairie, future recruits will also be recruited from the young nomads in the territory...
According to Claude's idea, the Rock Legion is responsible for the defense of the overseas dominions, while the garrison of the territory on the Karnas Prairie is handed over to the Storm Legion. As for the Thunder Legion, it is the mobile armed force of the overseas dominions and remains ready to attack at any time.
, launched an active attack on the enemy as soon as possible, which is why the Overseas Dominion Council approved the addition of a regular field regiment.
The commander of the reorganized and reorganized Thunder Legion will be Claude's younger brother, Lieutenant General Diavid, and his other younger brother, Lieutenant General Belklin, will serve as the chief of staff of the Legion. General Albert will be responsible for forming the new Storm.
Legion, and is responsible for all local garrison work in the Karrnath Steppe, Eskilen region and Rimodra region.
All reorganization, reorganization, and formation tasks must be completed within four months, because during these four months, the ocean-going transport fleet will transport the eight Hicks returning divisions from the overseas dominions to the Gulf of Tonkin. After they arrive, Ke
Only then will Lord formally implement the Hicks Kingdom strategy plan and completely defeat this most stubborn enemy kingdom.
The officers who accepted their respective tasks stood up, saluted and left the conference room, while Claude, General Skerry and General Albert went to have dinner together. In the end, General Albert drank a few more glasses and became drunk.
They said goodbye and left. Claude and General Skerry breathed a sigh of relief and went to General Skerry's residence to have a secret conversation in the study.
"Are you sure it's the king himself?" Claude asked.
"Yes." General Skerry nodded: "I checked his whereabouts. When he quietly arrived in Beibu Gulf to inspect us and met with me privately, in his kingdom, he went to Wangzhuang for hunting. Every year
At this time of the year, he would go to Wangzhuang to hunt, and he didn’t like to hold gatherings of nobles. They were all private activities. Because he said to the nobles and ministers, only in this season can I have a period of freedom. God, just let me be quiet.
Some, please stop bothering me..."
Claude laughed: "This is a maverick king."
General Skerry shook his head: "Otherwise, he is very smart. I suspect that he uses the excuse of going to Wangzhuang to hunt every year to break away from contact with the ministers of the kingdom, making people think that he is going hunting. In fact, he is disguised in private to inspect the national conditions or something.
. So his kingdom has been developing well. Although it is a vassal state of the Hicks Kingdom, it is the strongest. It has always been feared by the Hicks Kingdom. For the Hicks Kingdom, Breo
The special kingdom is a vassal state that has never been truly conquered by them..."
Claude looked at the map of the Breault Kingdom spread out on the desk. This is a mountainous country, with only one third of the plain terrain. The Breault people have always been known for their tenacity and bravery. In the past two hundred years, they have been as many as Hicks. The kingdom has fought seven wars, winning only two and losing five. However, the Kingdom of Hicks has never been able to truly destroy this mountain kingdom.
More than 50 years ago, King Mengduo I of the Kingdom of Breault still led the Breault people to fight guerrillas in the mountains for three years when the royal city was occupied by the Hicks army, which inflicted heavy losses on the Hicks people. The casualties eventually forced the Hicks to evacuate the royal city, and took the initiative to reach a truce and peace agreement with Manggedo I. However, shortly after Manggedo I returned to the royal city, he died of drinking poisonous wine by mistake. Many people suspected that this was the result of the Hicks. The Kexians caused the assassination...
The current king of the Kingdom of Breault is Avitele I, the youngest grandson of Mancodo I. His father and three brothers were all killed in the battle with the Kingdom of Hicks. That was the Kingdom of Breault. In the last war with the Kingdom of Hicks, the defeated Kingdom of Breault was forced to cede the coastal areas to the Kingdom of Hicks, making the Kingdom of Breault a landlocked country and losing two excellent seaports and large areas along the coast. plain territory.
Avitley I ascended the throne of the Kingdom of Breault in his infancy. He was only half a year old at that time, but as the only remaining bloodline of Mengduo I, he was still elected as the new king. It is said that in order to protect As he grew up, several nobles of the kingdom sacrificed their young sons to impersonate him and let him appear in the royal court. However, the real Avitley I was adopted by an old hunter family in the mountains and grew up quietly.
In the more than ten years until Avitley I came of age, the young sons of the nobles of the kingdom who pretended to be him at the royal court all died unexpectedly. However, the nobles of the Kingdom of Breault finally waited until Avitley I came of age. , returned to the royal court and became the lord of the kingdom. He has been in charge of the Breault Kingdom for thirty-four years now.
In the past thirty-four years, the Kingdom of Breault has not had any war with the Kingdom of Hicks. Externally, as a vassal state, the Kingdom of Hicks sometimes issued very harsh requirements, but Avitley I still found ways to fulfill them. The Kingdom of Hicks could not find an excuse to criticize the Kingdom of Breault. Internally, King Avitlie I worked hard to govern and asked the nobles of the kingdom to reduce the burden on the civilians in the territory, which greatly increased the strength of the Kingdom of Breault and made the Kingdom of Hicks stand out. Treat each other.
Among the eleven neighboring vassal states surrounding the Kingdom of Hicks, the overlord of the northern land of Farea, the Kingdom of Breault ranks first in strength. During the thirty-four years that Avitley I was in power, he was defeated by Breault. He is respectfully called the King of Wiseness. However, this King of Wiseness has a quirk. In the two months of July and August every year, he likes to go back to the old hunter’s hunting house in the mountains when he was a child. The three attendants went into the mountains to hunt together like hunters...
This habit has been dissuaded by many nobles in the kingdom, but Avitley I is arbitrary on this point. He said that he is the son of the mountain, and the old hunter taught him all the hunting skills of the Brayote people, and he must do it every year You need to practice, so that you can become a king that all Brayot people truly believe in.
Therefore, every year in July and August, if you ask the Breot people where their king is, the Breot people will point to the mountains. Our king should be hunting in the deep mountains and old forests at this time. This is why Avitley I became famous.
He is nicknamed the Hunting King. This does not refer to how many prey he has hunted, but that he likes hunting so much and is the king...
At the end of July last year, when General Skerry went to inspect the construction projects in the territory, he was suddenly stopped on the road by a middle-aged man who claimed to be King Avitley I of the Kingdom of Breault. The middle-aged man directly handed over the family crest that proved his identity.
and the golden seal were thrown to General Skree for inspection to prove his identity. The only requirement was to keep his appearance secret.
General Skerry immediately invited him to get on his carriage and returned to his home to have a long talk with Avitley I. The purpose of Avitley I's visit was very simple, he just wanted to find out if there were any overseas autonomous territories.
The idea of attacking the Kingdom of Hicks, because the Kingdom of Hicks, the Kingdom of Overas, and the overseas autonomous territories are still in a state of war.
What Avitley I hoped was that if the overseas autonomous territories wanted to attack the Kingdom of Hicks, the Kingdom of Breault could help and dispatch at least four legions. But he hoped to obtain military assistance from the overseas autonomous territories. Back then, the Kingdom of Breault and the Kingdom of Hicks
In the last war of the Hicks Kingdom, the Breault Kingdom was defeated. Not only did it cede the coastal areas, but even the kingdom's military industry was plundered by the Hicks Kingdom, so that its weapons and equipment lagged behind the Hicks Kingdom.
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After Avitelli I left in a hurry, General Skerry wrote a report on the meeting between the two. He did not dare to use a falcon to send the message for fear of leaking it. Instead, he sent his adjutant to take a special trip back to the overseas autonomous territories on an armored battleship.
After handing this confidential document to Claude, Claude decided to attack the Kingdom of Hicks and eliminate this mortal enemy country.
"Now we can send people to contact him and let him make some preparations for war. Do you still have the token he gave you?" Claude asked.
General Skerry opened the drawer and took out an arc-shaped gold hook: "This is it, the outer edge of a palm mirror. As long as it meets his palm mirror, he will know that he is the person we sent to contact him.
There is also a code word, which is to bargain, and it is correct to buy his mirror in the end. If the other party insists on buying this outer edge gold hook, it means that something unexpected has happened..."
The so-called palm mirror refers to a mirror as big as the palm of your hand. It is a small mirror that nobles use to modify their appearance and women use to put on makeup and other things. It has a mirror made of crystal and glass. The nobles and rich use gold and silver, and the ladies use it.
Jade jewelry, common people's maids and servants used materials such as copper, iron, bamboo and wood to decorate the outer edge and bottom of the mirror.
Claude picked up the outer edge of the gold hooked mirror and looked at it, and found that it had been broken off with great force. It seemed that Avitley I could not find any tokens for the time being, so he could only break off the outer edge of the palm mirror he carried with him.
Take it down so that when you compare the broken marks later, you really can't find the fake one.
"Send more spies to see if the public sentiment against the Kingdom of Hicks is serious in the Breault Kingdom. Although you sent people to understand the details of this Avitley I and feel that he is sincerely cooperating with us. But after all, the matter is
When it comes to the life and death of our overseas Dominion soldiers, we have to be more cautious..." Claude frowned and thought about something.
"You can also send military scouts to test it out." General Skerry said.
Claude shook his head: "No, soldiers can still be easily spotted in civilian clothes, but your businessman spies are more inconspicuous. I have ordered Colonel Boquear from the Military Intelligence Department to come next month and be responsible for liaison in the future.
Leave the affairs of Avitley I to him."
General Skerry nodded: "Okay, I will send someone to meet Avitlie I first to understand his needs. After Colonel Boker arrives, I will introduce him to Avitlie I. He will be responsible for the follow-up matters.
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General Skerry knew Colonel Bockard when he was in charge of the affairs of the military headquarters in the overseas autonomous territories. Naturally, he knew that he and Claude were close friends when they were young. Claude trusted Colonel Bockard very much. At the same time, with Colonel Bockard's stature, there was no doubt that
People will think that he is a soldier, but this is his best disguise. However, Colonel Bockaar is a real genius in intelligence and has made many contributions to the Dominion.
Seeing that Claude had been staring at the maps of Breault Kingdom and Hicks Kingdom on the table, General Skerry asked curiously: "How are you planning to attack the Hicks Kingdom? It is difficult to land from the sea, and there may even be casualties.
Very big. After the spies I sent came back from the Hicks Kingdom, they told me that after the Sea King fleet was ambushed and destroyed by us, the Hicks Kingdom has been vigorously strengthening the defense facilities in the coastal areas and five seaport towns. Even if we just use
Even if the armored fleet launches an attack, it will be beaten to death in front of the iron walls set up by the Kingdom of Hicks..."
Claude laughed: "What an iron wall? Come on, maybe the Kingdom of Hicks is bragging. Their Sea King fleet is gone, and the defense facilities on land are useless to our armored fleet."
A moving target?”
"Even if it is a target, it must be hit by the armored fleet!" General Skerry said, taking out a map from a slot nearby and opening it on the desk: "This is the coastal area of the Kingdom of Hicks and the five
The defense layout of this seaport town was drawn by my spies from memory. Perhaps the Hicks have added new defense facilities now...
The northern waters of Farea Continent have always been known for high winds and waves. The coastal areas are mostly covered with tidal flats, mudflats and cliffs. Even the five seaports of the Kingdom of Hicks are basically surrounded by cliffs. These are the only ones.
The cliffs near the sea block the wind and waves on the sea, so that the harbor inside will be calm and calm, becoming a harbor where ships can berth and rely on.
The current Kingdom of Hicks has used a lot of labor to build a lot of forts on the cliffs facing the sea, blocking the waterways entering the harbor. Our spies alone have seen and recorded more than fifty
They are condescending and occupy a geographical advantage. I asked General Murray that it is impossible to attack these high-altitude forts within the range of our naval guns, because our naval guns do not have this shooting height.
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This is still the first line of defense. The second line of defense is that the Hicks manipulated the waterway into the harbor. They used huge rocks, wooden piles, and sunken ships to reduce the width of the waterway into the harbor, leaving only one
A curved waterway that allows two ships to run parallel. If there is no guide ship to guide you when entering the port for the first time, it is easy to run aground and collide. Even if you remember the waterway, you must slow down when traveling. This is simply a threat to the forts on both sides.
A target was erected.
The third line of defense is the dock land of the seaport. Thick forts and tall walls and trenches have been built to isolate the entire dock landing area. In this way, even if our armored fleet breaks through the restrictions of coastal cliff forts and waterways, it will land
After the troops were sent to the shore, these landing troops had to forcefully attack the dock forts and walls. Only by breaking through these blockades could they temporarily obtain safe protection and a place to rest.
But now, five of the eight standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks are deployed near the seaport city. Basically, there is a standing legion behind a seaport city. Once they get the news that the seaport is being attacked and attacked, they will immediately reinforce the seaport.
The city launched a counterattack to wipe out our landing force or drive it into the sea..."
Claude smiled bitterly, well, this is indeed a defense like an iron wall. Even the armored battleships of the Dominion Military District, the new rifles are ahead of the Hicks Kingdom's army, and their combat power is much higher than the Hicks army, but from
Launching a landing attack at sea is indeed not worth the gain. These defensive facilities set up by the enemy can completely offset the advantages of the Thunder Legion.
"Actually, I don't think the Kingdom of Breault is that useful to us." General Skerry continued: "Even if Avitley I led four legions to attack the Kingdom of Hicks, he would not be able to defeat the Kingdom of Hicks' defense.
The power was transferred from the coastal areas to the eastern border. The three standing legions in their country were enough to withstand the attack of the four Breault legions. At the same time, they could also form several reserve legions to join the battlefield.
If we cannot land at a seaport in the Hicks coastal zone and break through the enemy's blockade to form a two-sided attack with the Breault Kingdom's army, then we are likely to end this war in defeat. Hicks
The Kingdom has obvious advantages in terms of recruiting troops, replenishing casualties and logistical supplies, and mobilizing troops when fighting on the mainland. And even if we occupy a seaport, in terms of troop transportation, we have to arrive one by one...
If they can't join up with the four legions of the Kingdom of Breault as soon as possible, then I doubt they can hold on for long. The Kingdom of Hicks will definitely defeat them first, drive them back to their country, and then concentrate their forces to deal with us, and we will then
He fell into a lonely battle.
By the way, I almost forgot that there is another biggest trouble. King Avitley I asked us to provide military assistance, otherwise he would not have the weapons and armaments to equip four legions. Now the Kingdom of Breault only has two poorly armed armies.
Standing Corps. However, the Kingdom of Breault has no coastal zone. Its northern border is the Kingdom of Hicks and its eastern border is the Kingdom of Menbamark. We have no way to transport weapons and military supplies to the Kingdom of Breault...